wardenry (wardnri)

[ But yet they may not tamely see, All through the Western Wardenry, Your law-contemning kinsmen ride, And burn and spoil the Border-side. Scott , L. of L. M., iv. 24. 2. The office of warden. wardenship (wâr'dn-ship), n. [ warden1 + -ship.] The office of warden. His Maj. K. Cha. I. gave him the Wardenship of Merton Colledge as a reward for his service, but the times suffered him not to receive or enjoy any benefitt by it. Aubrey, Lives (William Harvey). warder1 (war'der), n . [Formerly also wardour , wardour , gardour, gardeor , a keeper, warder, warder , ward: see ward1 , v ., and -er1, -or1.] One who keeps watch and ward; a keeper; a guard. Memory, the warder of the brain. The warders of the gate. Shak ., Macbeth, i. 7. 65. IMG:content-2057.png:[blocks in formation] There! Carter has done with you, or nearly so; I'll make you decent in a trice. Jane, open the top drawer of the wardrobe , and take out a clean shirt and neck-handkerchief: bring them here; and be nimble. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, xx. A ponderous mahogany wardrobe , looking like nothing so much as a grim wooden mausoleum, occupied nearly all of one wall. Harper's Mag ., LXXVI. 192. 3. The clothes belonging to one person at one time. Hot. The king hath many marching in his coats. Doug. Now, by my sword, I will kill all his coats; I'll murder all his wardrobe, piece by piece. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., v. 3. 27. The most important article of all in a gentleman's ward robe was still wanting. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 14. 41. A privy. I seye that in a wardrobe they him threwe. Chaucer , Priore 's Tale, 1. 120. Dryden, Æneid, ii. 451. wardrober (wârd'rō"ber), n. [ Warder butcher-birdt, the great gray shrike, Lanius excubitor. Sir John Sebright.